How to get youtube downloadable url without downloading the video

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Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

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How to get youtube downloadable url without downloading the video #28013

Open dijey099 opened 3 years ago

dijey099 commented 3 years ago

Hi guys, I want to extract just the downloadable url of an Youtube's video... The command youtube-dl -g url works but I want the equivalent syntax for scripting

pukkandan commented 3 years ago

equivalent syntax for scripting

Do you mean for API access?

khavishbhundoo commented 3 years ago

Use the --dump-json flag

youtube-dl url --dump-json